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...American people made Ford Motor Company what it is. We have nothing the public did not give us. No surplus exists for personal benefit - every surplus is provided for future use. The future is here, and we are going to do our utmost - risk everything, if necessary - to use this surplus which the public, through its dealings with us, has provided, to see if we cannot make what the country needs most - work, jobs." - Henry Ford...
...When he went so far as to propose a "no first strike" nuclear policy, matching India's stance but violating his own military's stated doctrine, Indians began to believe that at long last they had found a Pakistani ruler who understood that normalizing relations would be of great benefit to Pakistan itself. But the Mumbai terrorist assault seemed only to confirm that the peacemakers in Islamabad are not the ones who call the shots...
...keeping a big book with a ledger rather than a computer system. But there is a delicate balancing act that we have to maintain, because while commercialization holds tremendous promise for expanding access to microfinance services to the more than one billion people - especially women - who have yet to benefit, there is also a clear risk of mission drift. One particularly disturbing trend - since you can't talk about poverty alleviation without talking about women's economic empowerment - is a decrease in the percentage of women being served as MFIs move toward a for-profit model . So making sure that...
...automakers acknowledge that they are looking to obtain additional concessions from the United Auto Workers, which has come under intense fire in Congress for its extensive pay and benefit packages. Union leaders are meeting this week in Detroit to take up the issue on whether to re-open their current contracts with the Big Three...
...Oxford evolutionary biologist William D. Hamilton in 1964. The idea helps explain how cooperative behavior can evolve among organisms. Biologists have often asked how cooperation could succeed when “cheaters”—organisms that did not express the cooperative gene—could benefit from other organisms’ cooperation. A green beard gene is a gene that allows organisms to cooperate only with other organisms that also have the gene. These organisms can identify each other as easily as if each possessed a green beard. While a handful of such genes were previously identified...